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Manila, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winslow-Holbrook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86032. It stands on Manila Wash. The Survey maps it on the Apache Butte quadrangle.

Manila within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Manila between 1998 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire Districtnot named
14 August 1998Natural1.8 acresFort Apache AgencyBIGSKUNKCA
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictWASH
8 July 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreJoseph City Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire District125
27 June 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeJACK RABBIT
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
13 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Manila: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anna Bernice ClaimsUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manila in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Thunderstorm WindManila-The Arizona Department of Transportation wind sensor along Interstate 40 at Jackrabbit reported a wind gust of 64 MPH.

Every storm recorded in Navajo County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Joseph City4.3 miles18
Hibbard5.6 miles14
Penzance9.4 miles18
Sunset Crossing (historical)13.2 miles21
Brigham City (historical)13.6 miles21
Sierra Plaza Subdivision13.7 miles18
Sunset City (historical)13.9 miles21
Holbrook14.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24506. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.